The Complete Poems

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Rose McGowan

“Consorting with Angels” is one of my favorite Sexton poems, but with so much raw power it is hard to choose.
“I was tired of being a woman, tired of the spoons and the post, tired of my mouth and my breasts, tired of the cosmetics and the silks.”
Sexton was and is so vital and so brazen. Mad respect.

Andrew Solomon

A life’s work may occupy shelf upon shelf, or all the genius may be distilled down to a concentrate of wisdom, and I would love to think that I’ve ever thought anything as clearly as Bishop has thought each of her poems. My favorite lines forever:
It is like what we imagine knowledge to be:
dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free,
drawn from the cold hard mouth
of the world, derived from the rocky breasts
forever, flowing and drawn, and since
our knowledge is historical, flowing, and flown.

Rose McGowan

“Consorting with Angels” is one of my favorite Sexton poems, but with so much raw power it is hard to choose.
“I was tired of being a woman, tired of the spoons and the post, tired of my mouth and my breasts, tired of the cosmetics and the silks.”
Sexton was and is so vital and so brazen. Mad respect.

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